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Self Righteously Poems - Poems about Self Righteously

Premium MemberJuice Ex Machina

...Juice Ex Machina

By Mark D. Stucky
When wine ran out at the wedding in Cana,
why did Mary request and expect Jesus
(who seemed slightly exasperated)
to act as an on-dem...
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Categories: self righteously, care, humorous, jesus, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLegislators Are the New Mill Owners

...JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children cl...
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Categories: self righteously, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse



The Smarter Man

...We take great pride in our knowledge
Each generation thinking they are smarter than the ones before
The problem, it's a subjective egocentric perspective
There's an air arrogance that's hard to ig...
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Categories: self righteously, america, anxiety, courage, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWeapons Down Anger

...Anger
is such a useful learning silence tool,
when not too short-term
ballistically reactive,
weaponized.

I have seldom noticed
when my own hot-burning issues
cold turn into
a Self and Othe...
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Categories: self righteously, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSaving Face Campaign

...Nonviolent designers 
of Public Service Announcements

Like "STOP"
smoking
shooting up
drinking
trashing
burning
ignoring various morbid diseases
sinning
sundry mental/spiritual pathologie...
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Categories: self righteously, green, health, mental illness,
Form: Political Verse



Premium MemberThe Dt Blues

...Not so dear DT:

Many voices have avoided asking you
obviously challenging questions,

Like, "Why?"

I have a different
but related choice question:

Ten years from 2020 revision,
would yo...
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Categories: self righteously, addiction, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTasty Democracy

...Tasty democratic roots
are made of trusted vines

Healthy democracy
does not chronically debate
to derail indigenous theocracy
nor diminish pursuit of individual liberty
to co-invest in politi...
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Categories: self righteously, health, integrity, peace, planet,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberMonopolitical Issues

...The MonoTheistic conclusions
self-righteously drawn
by too many Straight
White
Male corporate leaders

More comfortable with their asset management skills
than uncomfortable with their power o...
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Categories: self righteously, culture, health, integrity, power,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberSacred Regeneration

...In Regenerative Design,
dialectical cooperative contrasts
need not also mean
suspiciously diabolical 
competitive win/lose opposition
to our own internal RightWing
self-righteously
kinda venom...
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Categories: self righteously, health, integrity, music, passion,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberA Country Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

...Thunderbolts split the stormy air.
The campaign for president heats up.
Insults and curses, accusations and lies,
Hate and confusion, poisoned barbs
Aimed at and finding a mark,
Only to be retip...
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Categories: self righteously, anger, angst, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSinging With the Earthday Choir

...The Assembly fills
with naturally optimistic,
yet kinda predative, ego-voiced ecologists
ready to discontinously 
self-righteously prey 
on hopelessly reactionary rightwing antifeminists,

To ...
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Categories: self righteously, community, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberDemons and Angels

...NonViolent messiahs
and bodhisattvas
are not born to scorn
or demonize
or even demote
or excommunicate
win/lose competition games
like capitalism
and patriarchalism
and systemic racism
and ...
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Categories: self righteously, earth, health, heaven, light,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberInconvenient Wisdom

...Instant individual redemption
from predative enculturation
is overly spiritualized,
under naturalized,
rightwing evangelical dogma
more likely found in empire-building
strong business-loyalty d...
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Categories: self righteously, anti bullying, bullying, community,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberOld Taoists Always Die

...I'm a 68 year aged
ecofeminist Taoist,
Yin Unitarian and Yang Universalist
in a bicameral
dipolar co-arising 
Left/Right-UnWinged EarthCentric kind of way

Where "permacultural"
presumes deat...
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Categories: self righteously, death, health, identity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberA Healthier Patriotism

...My own patriotic U.S. extended family,
historically,
and currently
remains StraightWhiteMale privileged
in our collective memories,
if not imaginations,
of spiritual communion
with all the mor...
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Categories: self righteously, games, gospel, health, passion,
Form: Political Verse

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